Philanthropy End of Summer Beach Reading: Part 1
It’s nearing the end of August but it’s been anything but quiet when it comes to pieces about nonprofits and philanthropy. A few particularly thought-provoking pieces have been released in recent days,...
View ArticlePhilanthropy End of Summer Beach Reading: Part 2
In my last post, I discussed the exchange on Nonprofit Quarterly between the always provocative Bill Schambra and the current president and immediate past president of the William and Flora Hewlett...
View ArticlePhilanthropy End of Summer Beach Reading: Part 3
In my musings about some of the stuff I’ve been reading this month, I discussed the quest for impact and the role of strategy. Too often overlooked by foundations is the vital role of strong...
View ArticleFoundations Get Ready: There’s a #GivingTuesday Coming
Foundations should start planning for #GivingTuesday, which falls on December 3 this year. #GivingTuesday, launched last year, is intended to create “a national day of giving to kick off the giving...
View ArticleLooking Within for the Next Foundation CEO
Does the appointment of La June Montgomery Tabron as president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, falling on the heels of the Ford Foundation’s appointment of Darren Walker as its new CEO, signal a trend...
View ArticleHelping Grantees Assess and Improve
I recognize that I run the risk of sounding like I am always telling foundations what I think they should do. Probably too many of my blog posts and Chronicle of Philanthropy columns have contained the...
View ArticleNot Gettin’ It: Dispatch from After the Leap
“Noooo!” That was the chorus of responses to the question I posed to the audience at the After the Leap conference in Washington yesterday. The question was “Do funders get it?” and the “it”, at least...
View ArticleLooking Back at 2013: CEP’s Detroit Conference
As 2013 draws to a close, we’ll all think back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the year. For me, a highlight was our conference in Detroit in May. If there was one theme that emerged from that...
View Article11 New Year’s Wishes
Every New Year, we tend to dream of what the next year might bring. In that spirit, here are my wishes for what we’d see in foundationland in my imagined 2014. Let me emphasize that these are not...
View ArticleA Working Definition of Foundation Effectiveness
What does foundation effectiveness look like? This is a question CEP’s board and staff grappled with in 2010, during a planning process, assisted by Lowell Weiss of Cascade Philanthropy Advisors, and...
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